Thousands of Kansas City residents—many America’s “working poor”—receive some $1 million in goods and services in a single day and lasting solutions to needs such as groceries, medical/dental screenings, kids carnival activities, haircuts, career fair, women’s and men’s professional clothing, prayer time and spiritual guidance, family portraits, live entertainment with free lunch, and more.

An exciting new partnership at these outreach events is with the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Free breast cancer screenings are being offered to combat the higher breast cancer death rates among poor women, due to lack of access to early detection and treatment. “Right now, there are millions of women in America – including ‘working poor’ women – who don’t have insurance and can’t afford the cost of a mammogram. Without a mammogram, these